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    Shin Splints

    Get some compression socks/sleeves. They're not an outright cure or a replacement for the abovementioned stuff, but most people find they can increase their weekly mileage a lot more without the splints becoming a problem.
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    "The Donald Duck syndrome" (Muscular imbalance)

    This popular reddit post details a basic corrective strategy for the problem. Also be aware that APT is usually accompanied by other spinal alignment issues, like hyperkyphosis (rounded upper back) and forward-head posture. That post has a link to a similar strategy for improving upper body...
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    "The Donald Duck syndrome" (Muscular imbalance)

    Stretching the hamstrings isn't alway the best option for APT, as they may already be in a chronically overstretched position and stretching them more would just be inviting injury. Usually it's a lot more effective to target the shortened hip flexors (as well as reactivating the glutes), which...
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    Psoas Kneeling Stretch issues

    Do the Thomas test and see if you're symmetrical (or rather, get someone else to see). Make sure in the lunge stretch you're keeping your legs parallel, and not letting the leg you're stretching go diagonally across your midline.
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    Supposed to suck the gut in when doing abs or not?

    Low rep ab work is ill-advised simply because the muscles you're targeting are predominantly slow-twitch, meaning they can output maximal effort for far more reps than the fast-twitch muscles which the common logic of rep schemes is based on. Nobody knows their 1RM calf raise, because your 1RM...
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    Program for those with lower back pain/injury

    Here are some simple stability movements recommended by Stuart McGill. And here's a MobilityWOD that you may find helpful for releasing any hip flexor tightness that may be causing pain or impeding mobility. Re routine advice: best to stick to appendicular loading (i.e. nothing involving...
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    unflavored protein

    Can't you get flavouring to go with it? I get flavour drops from the same place I order the whey, and I find it preferable to any pre-flavoured stuff as I can combine them however I like (strawberry + chocolate ftw). Also you can mix unflavoured with some pre-flavoured at a fairly high ratio, 3...
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    Pistol Squats

    Hold onto the sides of the rack or a doorway throughout each rep. Work towards using fewer fingers to hold on, then free up a hand to hold a kettlebell or some other weight, which will help you balance. You have the strength - you just need to develop the skill to steer your weight through one...
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    Skipping Problems

    Are you doing any prehab work on your plantar fascia? e.g. foot rolling
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    Help with knee chronic knee tedonitis/tedonosis

    No dietary advice to offer, but have you given voodoo flossing a try? It may not outright cure your condition, but it may help alleviate it.
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    ROM on chins/pull ups

    I didn't imply the pitching was caused by AC activation, only that AC activation helps limit risk of slipping into gross extension. It's pretty obvious why the body tilts at that angle - to avoid that, you'd have to pull BTN.
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    ROM on chins/pull ups

    It's good. Anterior chain activation will keep you in neutral alignment. The ideal "hollow" pullup:
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    Pulling John Great Watch!

    Sport is my favourite subject for documentaries - they don't have to manufacture any drama like they do with other subjects (like Pumping Iron, which was majority worked), as it's all really happening in the footage. And this is by far one of the most dramatic docs of recent years. It actually...
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    ROM on chins/pull ups

    Full shoulder ROM is good, but that's often rather less movement than most people think. Chances are if you're struggling to get your chin over the bar and/or touch your chest to it, you're going into some ugly pelvic tilt, spinal extension and forward-head posture. I also tend to avoid full...
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    What kind of strength / conditioning to do as a supplement just to reduce injuries?

    Crossfit astroturfing I imagine. They're worse than Scientologists.
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    What kind of strength / conditioning to do as a supplement just to reduce injuries?

    Just buy it off amazon.com - given the jacked up UK price and extra wait, you might as well just order straight from the states for
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    Best unilatteral exercises

    Pistols. Bitches love that glute medius innervation. One-arm chins, until I got too fat and lost it. Do Kroc rows count?
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    What kind of strength / conditioning to do as a supplement just to reduce injuries?

    It's everything from his MobilityWOD videos, and then some. 400 pages covering the correct use of every joint and muscle in the body, starting with demonstrations of neutral positions, then showing the optimal ROM, then analysing any mobility-stability problems, likely causes and self-treatment...
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    What kind of strength / conditioning to do as a supplement just to reduce injuries?

    http://download.lugosoft.com/cfe/_library/file/BASL%20Sample.pdf
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